Thirteenth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2010)

                Brno, Czech Republic, 6-10 September 2010

                     http://www.tsdconference.org/    

The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk  University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of  West Bohemia, Pilsen.  The conference is supported by International  Speech Communication Association.    

Venue: Brno, Czech Republic       

THE SUBMISSION DEADLINES:        
 March 15 2010 ............ Submission of abstracts    
 March 22 2010 ............ Submission of full papers   

 Submission of abstract serves for better organization of the review  process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is  necessary.
   
TSD SERIES    

TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in  both spoken and written language processing from the former East Block  countries and their Western colleagues. Proceedings of TSD form a book  published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial  Intelligence (LNAI) series. TSD Proceedings are regularly indexed by  Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index.  Moreover, LNAI  series are listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI,  INSPEC or COMPENDEX.        

TOPICS    

Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to):
      text corpora and tagging
      transcription problems in spoken corpora
      sense disambiguation
      links between text and speech oriented systems
      parsing issues
      parsing problems in spoken texts
      multi-lingual issues
      multi-lingual dialogue systems
      information retrieval and information extraction
      text/topic summarization
      machine translation
      semantic networks and ontologies
      semantic web
      speech modeling
      speech segmentation
      speech recognition
      search in speech for IR and IE
      text-to-speech synthesis
      dialogue systems
      development of dialogue strategies
      prosody in dialogues
      emotions and personality modeling
      user modeling
      knowledge representation in relation to dialogue systems
      assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue
      applied systems and software
      facial animation
      visual speech synthesis

Papers on processing languages other than English are strongly  encouraged.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
         Frederick Jelinek, USA (general chair)
      Hynek Hermansky, Switzerland (executive chair)
      Eneko Agirre, Spain
      Genevieve Baudoin, France
      Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic
      Attila Ferencz, Romania
      Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico
      Louise Guthrie, GB
      Jan Hajic, Czech Republic
      Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic
      Patrick Hanks, Czech Republic
      Ludwig Hitzenberger, Germany
      Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Republic
      Ales Horak, Czech Republic
      Eduard Hovy, USA
      Ivan Kopecek, Czech Republic
      Steven Krauwer, The Netherlands
      Siegfried Kunzmann, Germany
      Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia
      Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic
      Hermann Ney, Germany
      Elmar Noeth, Germany
      Karel Oliva, Czech Republic
      Karel Pala, Czech Republic
      Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia
      Vladimir Petkevic, Czech Republic
      Fabio Pianesi, Italy
      Adam Przepiorkowski, Poland
      Josef Psutka, Czech Republic
      James Pustejovsky, USA
      Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands
      Milan Rusko, Slovakia
      Ernst G. Schukat-Talamazzini, Germany
      Pavel Skrelin, Russia
      Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic
      Petr Sojka, Czech Republic
      Marko Tadic, Croatia
      Tamas Varadi, Hungary
      Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland
      Taras Vintsiuk, Ukraine
      Yorick Wilks, GB
      Victor Zakharov, Russia

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
      John Carroll, University of Sussex, UK
      Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University, USA

FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE
     The conference program will include presentation of invited papers,  oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will  be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions.
     Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow  for additional informal interactions.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
     Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages  formatted in the LNCS style (see below). Those accepted will be  presented either orally or as posters. The decision about the  presentation format will be based on the recommendation of the  reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the  on-line form accessible from the conference website.
     Papers submitted to TSD 2010 must not be under review by any other  conference or publication during the TSD review cycle, and must not be  previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere.
     As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors'  names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the  author's identity, e.g., 'We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...',  should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as 'Smith previously  showed (Smith, 1991) ...'.  Papers that do not conform to the  requirements above are subject to be rejected without review.
     The authors are strongly encouraged to write their papers in TeX  or LaTeX formats. These formats are necessary for the final  versions of the papers that will be published in the Springer  Lecture Notes.  Authors using a WORD compatible software for the  final version must use the LNCS template for WORD and within the  submit process ask the Proceedings Editors to convert the paper  to LaTeX format.  For this service a service-and-license fee of  CZK 1500 will be levied automatically.
     The paper format for review has to be either PDF or PostScript file  with all required fonts included. Upon notification of acceptance,  presenters will receive further information on submitting their  camera-ready and electronic sources (for detailed instructions on  the final paper format see  http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html#Proceedings.)
     Authors are also invited to present actual projects, developed  software or interesting material relevant to the topics of the  conference.  The presenters of the demonstration should provide the  abstract not exceeding one page. The demonstration abstracts will not  appear in the conference proceedings.
      
IMPORTANT DATES
     March 15 2010 ............ Submission of abstracts
     March 22 2010 ............ Submission of full paper
     May 15 2010 .............. Notification of acceptance
     May 31 2010 .............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration
     July 23 2010 ............. Submission of demonstration abstracts
     July 30 2010 ............. Notification of acceptance for
                                        demonstrations sent to the authors
     September 6-10 2010 ...... Conference date

Submission of abstracts serves for better organization of the review  process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is  necessary.

The contributions to the conference will be published in proceedings  that will be made available to participants at the time of the  conference.

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
     The official language of the conference is English.    
  
ACCOMMODATION
     The organizing committee will arrange discounts on accommodation in  the 3-star hotel at the conference venue. The current prices of the  accommodation will be available at the conference website.    
  
ADDRESS  
 
All correspondence regarding the conference should be  addressed to
      Dana Hlavackova, TSD 2010
      Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
      Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
      phone: +420-5-49 49 33 29
      fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20
      email: tsd2010@tsdconference.org
    
The official TSD 2010 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/       

LOCATION    
Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a  population of almost 400.000. The city is the country's judiciary and  trade-fair center. Brno is the capital of Moravia, which is in the  south-east part of the Czech Republic. Brno had been a Royal City  since 1347 and with its six universities it forms also a cultural  center of the region.
    
Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London, Moscow  and Prague and by trains or buses from Prague (200 km) or  Vienna (130 km).    

For the participants with some extra time, some nearby places may also  be of interest.  Local ones include: Brno Castle now called Spilberk,  Veveri Castle, the Old and New City Halls, the Augustine Monastery  with St. Thomas Church and crypt of Moravian Margraves, Church of St.  James, Cathedral of St. Peter & Paul, Cartesian Monastery in Kralovo  Pole, the famous Villa Tugendhat designed by Mies van der Rohe along  with other important buildings of between-war Czech architecture.   

For those willing to venture out of Brno, Moravian Karst with Macocha  Chasm and Punkva caves, battlefield of Battle of three emperors  (Napoleon, Russian Alexander and Austrian Franz - Battle by  Austerlitz), Chateau of Slavkov (Austerlitz), Pernstejn Castle,  Buchlov Castle, Lednice Chateau, Buchlovice Chateau, Letovice Chateau,  Mikulov with one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Central Europe,  Telc - a town on the UNESCO heritage list, and many others are all  within easy reach.